Year of the Wife: Rabbi Harvey Fields...

Year of the Wife: Rabbi Harvey Fields of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple wrote that he read a newspaper account of a flea market fund-raiser that said: “Everybody brought along something no longer needed. Many of the women were accompanied by their husbands.”

Just another example of the anti-incumbent feeling.

Republican plot? In a flagrant example of subliminal advertising, a “California Democratic Voter Checklist” card arrived in our mail with a San Francisco return address.

On Bush Street.

November surprise: An invitation to a Clinton-Gore fund-raiser in Santa Monica included the name of a seldom-seen performer in the list of supporters.

North or South?A spy sent along an interoffice note to the West Los Angeles College faculty and staff that encouraged “everyone at the college to offer any suggestions you might have to help get people to the poles on voting day.”

What Dan started: Inspired by the phrase made famous by the vice president, Newsweek magazine recently published its 100-member list of the Cultural Elite. It contained a predictably disproportionate share of Easterners (including Washington’s Dan Quayle). One of the few non-Hollywood types from the West was architect Frank Gehry, the designer of downtown L.A.’s yet-to-be-built Walt Disney Concert Hall. That’s the structure that has been described by some as the first example of the Post-Earthquake School of Architecture.

Is there an eligibility problem here?Seeking a new perspective on the candidates, TV host Arsenio Hall interviewed a group of children, one of whom had this analysis of Ross Perot: “He’s from a different country and he came here and he had no friends.”

He would like a place to sleep, too: Perot, as you’ve no doubt heard, says that he’ll accept no salary if elected. But we’re not sure if he was at the helm of the car that Kathleen Fisher saw in Hollywood--the one with the bumper sticker that said: “Will Be President for Food.”

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In 1838, the pueblo of Los Angeles enacted a law prohibiting the serenading of women without a license.